An Encyclopedia of Radical Helping: A Radical Community Building Project

As diagnostic psychotherapy loses its "magick and wonder," many are seeking out alternative, non-medicalized approaches to therapeutics and wellness. Chris Hoff (host of The Radical Therapist Podcast), Erin Segal & Julie Cho (Thick Press) embarked on a journey to explore a sprawling, uncharted world of radical therapies, social work, healing and wellness modalities.

Their recently published, voluptuously-designed Encyclopedia maps 250 multidisciplinary practices, methodologies, and concepts useful to radical helpers —creating a rhizomic, polyphonic collection that "prefigures a world where multiple love- and freedom-enabling realities can coexist.”

• Who did they meet?
• What practices did they discover?
• Did encyclopedia-building galvanize community?
• Where’s the radicalness in giving help?
• Can we catch a glimpse of a radically giving world?

In this celebratory conversation, the Institute’s Jennifer Bullock & Janet Wootten introduce Chris, Erin and Julie, along with a few of the Encyclopedia’s radical, global practitioners: Care Pods (HyoYoung Minna Kim), Relationality (Sadaf Vidha & Aryan Somaiya); and Poverty-Aware Social Work/Resistance (Michal Krumer-Nevo).

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